restless peasant: life, changing
The traditional approach to life has become one where we work our little arses off for 40 years, vegetate for 5 years and then die…nice eh? The word tradition is a funny one. It implies that this is the way that things have always been done, but in many cases and in all avenues […]
Attitudes to work are firmly lodged at the centre of any discussion about freedom. I was recently involved in such a discussion with some friends and the overwhelming feeling was one of stuckness. I know that’s not a word but it describes what was being communicated very well. It started with just one person raising […]
Today I’ve been thinking about money, work, freedom and being idle. The preachers of Capitalism have made “idle” a dirty word and they promise us that if we work hard, we will get well paid and have freedom to do what we want; in other words money=freedom. Well, if you want to get by in […]
We think too much and that’s a major downside of being human; we think too much about how we got here, what we are here for and how we can get a Range Rover Sport like Richard’s next door. We save up for the good times, as if we can be sure the good times […]